Table 5.
Correlations in Spending Trajectorya
| Data | % Change Correlations (P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicare Hospital and Physician Reimbursements, 1996-2006 |
Thomson Reuters Medical Spending per Member Month, Overall, 1996-2006 |
Non-Medicare Inpatient Days per Capita, 1996-2004 |
Medicare Inpatient Days per Capita, 1996-2004 |
|
| HRR levela | ||||
| Medicare hospital and physician reimbursements, 1996-2006 |
1 | |||
| Thomson Reuters medical spending per member month, overall, 1996-2006 |
0.20 (.001) | 1 | ||
| County levelb | ||||
| Non-Medicare inpatient days per capita, 1996-2004 | 1 | |||
| Medicare inpatient days per capita, 1996-2004 | 0.13 (<.001) | 1 | ||
HRR indicates hospital referral region.
a
Medicare/Thomson correlations were weighted by member months in Thomson sample in 1996 and use the Thomson Reuters MarketScan Research Database for firms with data available for all years from 1996 to 2006; based on sample of 276 HRRs with at least 1500 member months of data in the Thomson Reuters data set in both 1996 and 2006. Data for Medicare are from the Dartmouth Atlas.
b
County-level Area Resource File correlations were weighted by total population of the county in 1996.